Science and Culture

Science and Culture Today (SCT) provides original reporting and analysis about evolution, neuroscience, bioethics, intelligent design and other science-related fields, including breaking news about scientific research. It also covers the impact of science on culture and conflicts over free speech and academic freedom in science. Finally, it fact-checks and critiques media coverage of scientific issues.

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Gould Said It Was All Contingency and Chance — Well, Maybe Not

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2026}

Appeals to contingency (i.e., in-principle unrepeatable singularities) disable theory testing. If anything can happen…don’t bother to test, because you can’t.

Giving Up on the Branching Order of Spiralia: More Findings from Max Telford’s Group

_{Science and Culture
January 27, 2026}

The open agnosticism in this new MS is a short step away from throwing in the towel entirely, at an even more radical level.

Oxford Conference on Evolution: Heresies and New Ideas Every Day

_{Science and Culture
January 26, 2026}

Michael Lynch, Jerry Coyne, and Richard Dawkins would have split themselves in two, like Rumpelstiltskin in a wild rage, if they had attended.

Michael Levin: “Evolution by Natural Induction” (By What?)

_{Science and Culture
December 22, 2025}

Levin and his colleagues are unintimidated by those bullies who labor to forestall a crackup on the orthodox evolutionary team.

Goodbye to a Basic Clade That Has Been with Us Since 1908?

_{Science and Culture
December 16, 2025}

It is hard — okay, impossible — to keep up with the number of frankly stunning revisions of core evolutionary theory these days.

All the Evidence Points to Design, but the Credit Goes to…You Know What

_{Science and Culture
December 12, 2025}

One of the most objectionable aspects of modern evolutionary theory was the undeserved, unearned credit it steals.

For Christmas, Share the Evidence of Nature’s Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
December 4, 2025}

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According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2025}

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895).

Discovering Intelligent Design: For Christmas, Give the Gift of Learning

_{Science and Culture
November 26, 2025}

Help others understand the design in life and in the cosmos. Or add to your own appreciation of this special season.

As an Idea, the “Anthropocene” Era Is Dead

_{Science and Culture
November 25, 2025}

In a world where pundits regularly accuse us all of being too anthropocentric, the naming of a new geological epoch would enshrine that view forever in science.

What a Declining System Looks Like: Fraud Crisis in Science Grows

_{Science and Culture
November 24, 2025}

Profits are artificially maintained by tax dollars so sinking quality does not send the alarm signals it would otherwise.

Will Other Evolutionary Biologists Speak Out About These Misleading Videos?

_{Science and Culture
November 10, 2025}

So, what does it matter if visually compelling but absolutely rubbishy videos give kids and their parents entirely the wrong perception of evolutionary theory?

Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

_{Science and Culture
October 30, 2025}

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere.

Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia

_{Science and Culture
October 27, 2025}

It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias, very much including the subject of intelligent design.

Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
October 23, 2025}

How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this!

New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2025}

There is hope for renewal in a flanking movement against materialism — the spiritually charged philosophy of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

New Video: “Proof of God in 3 Minutes” — Really? Here Are the Details

_{Science and Culture
October 16, 2025}

We will demonstrate that the video is accurate, well supported, and there is truly no serious argument against its conclusions.

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science and Culture
October 2, 2025}

His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public.

Consciousness and Intelligent Design: Dr. Simmons on Coast to Coast Tonight

_{Science and Culture
October 1, 2025}

He tells us, “My patients have contacted me from all over the world having heard me on this show on previous occasions.”

Now It’s Science Fraud in…Mathematics?

_{Science and Culture
September 26, 2025}

Most lay people would not think that mathematics is a particularly safe place to do fraud.